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• HDP delegation visits Şenyaşar family protesting in Urfa 

  HDP deputy Mahmut Toğrul visited the Şenyaşar family's vigil in front of the court in Urfa. Emine Şenyaşar and her son are demanding justice for their family members murdered by bodyguards and relatives of an AKP deputy.
• HDP in Amed stages sit-in to condemn isolation of Öcalan 

  HDP Amed Provincial Organization and non-governmental organizations held a sit-in protest in Koşuyolu Park against the Imrali isolation.
• Survey: Öcalan is the main interlocutor to resolve the Kurdish issue 

  The survey was conducted on April 1-10, 2021 in 18 cities including Diyarbakır, Batman, Şanlıurfa, Mardin, Antep, Van, Şırnak, Siirt, Muş, Malatya, Iğdır, Hakkari, Elazığ, Dersim, Bitlis, Bingöl, Ağrı, Adıyaman.
• Hearing of Demirtaş postponed 

  The prosecution demanded that the case of Demirtaş be combined with the Kobanê Case at the 22nd High Criminal Court in Ankara.
• Turkish police raid 13 houses and detain 10 people in Ceyhan 

  Turkish police raided 13 addresses and detained at least 10 people in Adana's Ceyhan district.
• Senators demand the release of Abdullah Öcalan in front of the Spanish Senate 

  Senators from 7 different parties from the Spanish State demanded the release of Abdullah Öcalan in front of the Senate.
• Lindsey German: Europe governments must end inhuman treatment of refugees 

  Stop the War Coalition convener, Lindsey German, speaks about the Syrian war and the refugees crisis.
• Petition for Syriac priest sentenced to prison in Turkey 

  A petition has been launched for priest Bileçen, who has been sentenced to prison: “We demand that the government drop all charges against the monk, who only acted according to his values and gave bread and water to those who asked for it.”
• Pervin Buldan: HDP pursues the Third Way 

  “HDP wants to form strategic alliances with all those who advocate the brotherhood of peoples and equal coexistence. This is the essence of our strategic stance on Turkey," said Pervin Buldan, co-chair of the party.
• Vigil protest at Boğaziçi University on day 100 

  On the 100th day of the vigil protest, the academicians gathered at the South Campus Square and turned their backs on the rectorate building.
• Öcalan’s lawyers file new application to visit their client in Imrali 

  Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyers filed a new application demanding an "urgent visit" with their client.
• Lawyer Engels: Abdullah Öcalan is the key to peace in Turkey 

  “Öcalan is a personality who will play a central role in future negotiations and will be a key to peace as was Nelson Mandela. That is the reason for his continued imprisonment,” says lawyer Tim Engels.
• Kurds from Mannheim and Saarbrücken take over Freedom for Öcalan Vigil 

  A group of activists from the German cities of Mannheim and Saarbrücken took over the Freedom for Öcalan Vigil in Strasbourg on week 460.
• Mesopotamian Religious Communities Platform stands up for Shengal in Cologne 

  The self-government system established by the Yazidi after 74 genocides in Shengal must finally be recognized, said the ‘Mesopotamian Religious Communities Platform’ in Cologne.
• Canada cancels licences for arms exports to Turkey 

  Canada has cancelled arms export licences for Turkey's high-tech drone systems after finding "credible evidence" that Canadian technology was diverted to Azerbaijan without Ottawa's permission and used in fighting in Nagorno-Karaba.
• Turkey puts helicopter deal with Italy on hold 

  In response to Mario Draghi's accusation of dictatorship, the Turkish government has put a contract for the purchase of helicopters from Italian defense manufacturer Leonardo on hold.
• Call for revolutionary internationalist May Day demo in Berlin 

  This year, the radical left will again march through Berlin in the "Revolutionary May Day Demonstration". For the first time, an alliance of migrant and internationalist groups will join the organization and provide the front block.
• “Öcalan must be free to find solutions to Middle East’s problems” 

  PYD Executive Committee member Asad Menan said that Abdullah Öcalan's physical freedom should be secured to resolve the issues in the Middle East.
• Hunger strike in Turkey’s prisons on day 137 

  The hunger strike launched in Turkish prisons against the Imrali isolation has entered its 137th day. The solidarity action launched in Maxmur has been continuing for 116 days and in Greece for 99 days.
• MEP Weber: Erdoğan is a kind of dictator 

  The chairman of EPP Group stated that the visit of EU-presidents to Turkey ended in a diplomatic failure and demanded that all talks about joining the EU should be stopped.
• Lawyers apply once again to visit Öcalan 

  Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers have applied once again to visit their client on Imrali after his call for a meeting with his lawyers within a legal framework.
• Activists in Rome celebrate Abdullah Öcalan's birthday 

  The birthday of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan, was celebrated in Rome at the Ararat Association in Rome.
• Tehran says Natanz nuclear complex failure was a 'terrorist act'  

  Tehran said that the accident at Natanz nuclear complex was a 'terrorist act'.
• FCK BW-BAYERN holds its first Assemblies Conference in South Germany 

  Civakên Kurdistanî (FCK BW-BAYERN) held its first Assemblies Conference of the Baden-Württemburg and Bayern states.
• Young Kurds in Drancy protest isolation of Abdullah Öcalan 

  Youth activists organized a march in the suburb of Drancy in Paris to protest the isolation imposed on Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and for his freedom.